Debra Leevil (poking at Debra Lee?)
Employee killed by Debra with sharp object
Huey Freeman on CNN during his hunger strike
Walmart employee pledging her paycheck to a poor BET employee!
First of all, I had to chase my 7yr old son KJ to bed but he ended up watching it anyway since I had parental guidance. This episode raised my eyebrows but at the end of the day, it is all about free speech. The Americans scream that daily but never adhere to it. When Aaron McGruder did this episode, his regular network Cartoon Network of Time Warner rejected this one due to lawsuit pressure from BET, but Cartoon Network has always denied that. Teletoon Canada is our cartoon channel and just like CN has Adult Swim, we have this adult portion too. The episode puts BET and its executives CEO Debra Lee and President Reginald Hudlin on full blast.
Reggie Hudlin or Weggie Rudlin?In the episode, Huey's hunger strike against BET is supported by Reverend Rollo Goodlove, voiced by guest star Cee-Lo. The Gnarls Barkley crooner also narrates the episode, in which BET head Deborah Leevil, a Dr. Evil type ruler, runs the network with nothing but ill will in mind. She kills an employee at the board table for a bad opinion. She even bows and kneels to a Viacom-like character like Sumner Redstone, Viacom's big boss. Viacom owns BET.
Cee Lo as Rev. Goodlove"Weggie Rudlin, my Harvard-educated President of Entertainment, tell me about the eeevil shows you have in development," the woman barks to her executive as she pets a hairless animal and places her pinky finger at the corner of her mouth.
Weggie Rudlin, a man who strongly resembles BET's President of Entertainment, Reginald Hudlin, stands before her meekly and says: "My Harvard education tells us that our goal is to take all the s***ty reality shows that MTV did five years ago and make them black… Next month we're going to have our first award show honoring video hoes, or as I like to call it, a hoe-wards show."
Boondocks is a cartoon about an angry point of view of two black kid brothers on everything. They live with their grandpa who they constantly argue with. Above are relevant screenshots of the controversial episode which has CNN, the Drudge Report, with BET and even MTV on blast. It was real fun and I was ashamed that CN banned it. The only thing I could see about the ban was when Huey, one of the kids went on CNN to protest BET. CN and CNN are both owned by Time Warner. That may pose a conflict of interest. There was even a Walmart employee, homeless people and illegal immigrants who said they were supporting BET employees treated like crap with no money by giving them the little they earn. Some BET employees were shown as homeless people living under bridges!
Huey's demand was that BET stop demeaning women on their music videos and pay their employees well, so the kid went on a hunger strike. Since some employees were portrayed as homeless, Walmart may not like their involvement in that either! That cartoon was perfectly safe in Canada! In the end, they all become friends and their pictures were all featured on Matt Drudge's "Drudge Report." It is too early to tell if BET will try to kill free speech by attempting any legal action on Teletoon. LET'S HOPE NOT!
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